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Warren Harding’s Fatal Quest for Normalcy
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“Ohio again is the big political state,” the Cincinnati Post said. “It may be pivotal as well as political. It may decide the election.”
It was June 1920, and the newspaper had good reason to boast. A few days earlier, the Republican convention in Chicago had nominated Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding as its candidate for president. And the Democratic convention in San Francisco was about to make its own bid for Ohio’s 24 electoral votes by choosing the state’s governor, James M. Cox, as its flag bearer.